Defence volunteers shot dead in Pattani

Sai Buri superintendent Pol Colonel Asis Umayee said Krissana Thepsao, 36, and Wirat InthongEiad, 42, were returning home in a pickup truck after having completed their shift at 10am, when four or five suspected insurgents, also in a pickup truck, fired at them with M16 assault rifles and a handgun. The two men died instantly from gunshot wounds to their head and torso, and the attackers made off with their pistols and three birds in a cage.